MADE-TO-MEASURE CASE MANUFACTURING - MADE IN FRANCE - MADE IN PARIS

The know-how of the gainier 

Gain a job that is lost, overcome by the change of lifestyle.

This ancestral art of perfection consists in covering any object with leather to sublimate it.

The leather workshop malle2luxe acquired its know-how in sheathing from the oldest sheathing house still in activity in Paris:

Gainerie Rotival, founded in 1895.

Three generations of the best workers in France have followed one another.

Gilbert Rotival 84 years old,  acquired from his childhood the know-how of excellence by observing his father who himself had been trained by his father for the making of travel articles including cases for high jewelry and on the manufacture of leather goods for the biggest luxury houses.

The Rotival house has collaborated all its life with these prestigious houses which have made French know-how shine all over the world.

Being the only one to hold this precious knowledge, he worked for 20 years for Dior in fine jewelry, more than 30 years for Cartier,  he made  the cases for the mysterious clocks. But also with other jewelers from Place Vendôme. 

He also collaborates with  Louis Vuitton just like his father and grandfather.

This unique know-how acquired in the Rotival House, Malle2luxe perpetuates it in the manufacture of custom leather cases.

We are neither a wholesaler nor a reseller. We only produce made-to-measure, in France, in Paris.

Design and manufacture of boxes for collector's items and high jewelry cases for rings, pendants, jewelry, timepieces, curiosities, goldsmiths and also watch boxes, boutique accessories, displays, trays.

All shapes are possible to create luxurious and unique cases. The limit of our creations is your imagination.

Cabinet of  curiosities  and   extremely original collection

Jewel in  Pipes Louis Vuitton 30s / 40, staging inspired the painting of René Magritte 1929.

Discover its manufacture (French page)

Made-to-measure box, to protect a small ivory Buddha from Imperial China. Family heritage.

Discover its manufacture (French page)

Box leather for silverware, perfumer

Manufacture of box for travel, small footprint to be put in the trunk.

Arrangement of an old Louis Vuitton suitcase, to store 16 watches (French page) 

Arrangement of an army ammunition box , to store 6 watches (French page).

Ring sizer, slotted, for romantic declarations of love 

Jewel case with precious stones or semi- precious stones , for merchant, lapidary, gemologist, silversmith, diamond dealer ...

Enhance, present, preserve, transport your stones: diamonds, rubies, sapphires, aquamarine, emerald, quartz, amethyst, citrine, garnet, zircons, opal

For the manufacture of a case, the materials used are natural and traditional materials: 

The wood  for the structure and the leather to wrap your precious objects, sometimes of the bristles.

The wood we use is poplar which comes from extremely light French forests the structure is only 3mm to 5mm thick.

In order to give life to your projects, you will find on this page our range of colors and leather for the making of your jewelry boxes.

All the leathers offered are tanned in France. High-end leathers, The choice of excellence.

The leather workshop ,

Malle2luxe is one of the last French houses to make pieces, entirely hand-sewn (saddle stitch) and made with the greatest respect for the traditions of leather craftsmanship.

Finesse, excellence, perfection for the manufacture and unique and authentic creation of accessories for small leather goods. 

Bag jewelry

Miniature label holder in precious leather 

Discover its history and its manufacture

First and foremost, be sure that the leather we use has great traceability. If at one time wild animals were victims of poaching endangering the extinction of the species, that time is over.

International cooperation, aimed at ensuring the preservation of endangered species, has established traceability by the Washington Convention (CITES).

This highly supervised trade requires that each skin has a unique bar code certifying its origin and the guarantee of the preservation of its resources for the future. Slaughter is regulated by a quota specific to each country according to the population in the country of origin. It is for this reason that we can find elephant, ostrich, rhinoceros, seal, shark, kangaroo, caiman, snake leather ...

Under no circumstances can the rare leathers found in France come from poaching animals.

Apart from this particular case, all of the leathers we use are farmed leathers intended for local consumption:

• Goat: India

• Cattle: Europe 

• Crocodile and alligator: Southern United States, Australia, Thailand

• Water snakes and reptiles: Thailand 

• Ostrich: South Africa

• Elephant: Africa

All these skins therefore come from slaughterhouses which feed, according to their cultures, the local population in the 4 corners of the world. It would be regrettable to waste all these skins which only ask to be sublimated to create exceptional objects! Much more ecological for the planet than plastic: imitation leather, pvc or other resin.

The skins are then tanned. This process makes it possible to stop the putrefaction. It consists of transforming the skins into leather, making them more durable and more flexible. This operation is done in tanneries.

Once tanned, the leather benefits from unmatched characteristics in terms of:

• Its mechanical properties (flexibility, traction, shear)
• Its resistance to abrasion (friction)
• Its conservation over time, a well-maintained leather can be eternal ...

Leather is a premium material.

There are different specialties in the leather trades. The saddler makes all the leather parts essential for driving a team: saddles, harness accessories ... The saddler saddler, straps, harnesses ...

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